A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.